Cooperation

An Occupier isn't just your casual visitor to Zuccotti Park, or a sometime demonstrator for the Occupy Wall Street cause. Occupiers are those who actually sleep out in the concrete square, enduring the bitter New York night to prove their point. It is those nighttime hours that make Occupy Wall Street such a...

Given the bad economy and poor job market most would think that people would be happy to have a job -- at least that's what our bosses and organizations tell us. Wondering whether this was the case, I recently asked AOL Jobs readers to share with me their feelings and attitudes toward their job and...

Today, workplace learning and teaching can and must bring out the brilliance in everyone. Here's how: The traditional approach to workplace learning and teaching is beyond old school -- it's broken. As a result, organizational intelligence is suffering at a time, on the heels of the Great Recession, when we...

Work can be more challenging for employees than it was just a few years ago. The mass layoffs of the recent recession have resulted in fewer people doing the same amount of work. That can result in some pretty tense workplaces, but a new study suggests that if employees stand together and support each other,...

Have you noticed that there's a lot more negativity at work lately? Less patience, more competition, maybe longer hours that lead to short tempers and frayed nerves? For the second year in a row, about two-thirds, or 65 percent of Americans say that civility is a major problem, and it's extending to all areas...

If you have a family and a job, chances are there is some degree of conflict between the two. So which is more responsible for the friction, the job or the family? Most Americans blame their job first, family second and themselves last, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by Elizabeth M....

The economy and society may have changed so much and so fast in the past 50 years that they're hard to recognize. However, what bosses want in their employees has remained the same, according to Karin Helgesson from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who wrote a doctoral thesis on the evolution of...

Being friends with supportive co-workers can not only make your job more enjoyable, it might help you live longer. A new study by researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel and published by the American Psychological Association, says that "people who have a good peer support system at work may live longer...

It seems that a number of us are not carrying our mothers' advice to "play well with others" from the school yard into the workplace. A recent study revealed that managers say they spend, on average, 18 percent of their time, which comes out to more than seven hours a week or nine weeks per year --...